Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
BEN ELTONMy advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY.
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I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we’re losing rather than a celebration of what we have.
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I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.
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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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